Jenn > Jenn's Quotes

“Without passion we'd truly be dead.”
― Angel, btvs 2x21

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“I already know. And it has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it’s what’s happening in my soul.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Hiding amongst the thick shadows,
Beckoning like a seductive siren of the deep ocean,
Tempting with a false, impossible desire”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“There is no norm, no safety net,
No way to rationalize what you’d rather forget”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“Bring me somewhere new
Away from this place;
Its memories haunt me
And I wish, longing to forget”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“I don’t need saving –
I’m not your damsel in distress
And you’re not my knight in tarnished armor.
.....
Don’t spare me,
Certainly don’t protect me,
I won’t break.”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“Mistaken

Memories are all that I have to anchor me,
Yet they’re often what leaves me unhinged,
Falling from that could I thought was so safe.
You came to a place, where – besides me –
You were uninvited.
Leaving, you promised me I could always
Count on you.

I especially miss that.

My kindred spirit,
The one who promised to love me,
Only to prove yourself a liar –
Going from Prince Charming
To the Big Bad Wolf,
Truly thinking only of yourself

Leaving me
With empty promises, alone in the dark,
Burnt from the initial spark
Of what I mistook for love,
Making my memories a false refuge.

(full poem)”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“Consolations are empty when you’re alone”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“(this I wrote for our troops, amazing men & women serving our country - sometimes with great sacrifice.)

Owen’s Own

His girls were his world,
He built his life around them.
Their laughs,
Their smiles,
Their tears,
Their sorrows;
He fought for it all.
Thousands of miles away,
Day after day,
He fought to keep them safe,
Keep them from harm,
But being gone, he could do it all.
They weren’t hurt, his girls,
But they weren’t safe anymore.
Finally he could come home
And truly protect his own.”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“The mirror betrays nothing.

(end line of "Duality" - one of my personal favorites)”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space
an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble
a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning
view all created things like this.”
― Red Pine, The Diamond Sutra

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock